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How to use the word intrigue in a Sentence?

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There’s no drama in our administration, there’s no palace intrigue. (My staffers) basically just sit back and say, ‘OK, what’s the governor going to do next?’ And we roll out and we execute.

Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I can tell you in four years, you did n’t see our administration leaking like a sieve, you did n’t see a lot of drama or palace intrigue, what you saw was surgical, precision execution. Day after day after day. And because we did that, we beat the left day after day after day.

Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Look, when I'm out with Georgians every day talking to them, they're about what's going on around the kitchen table, the impact on their lives, the out-of-control spending in Washington, the woke indoctrination in the schools, crime, open borders. They're very focused on someone that can come solve their problems right now in 2022. So, they're focused on the kitchen table and not palace intrigue.

Jessica McGowan/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Covid has incinerated sexual desire, couples that live together lost any intrigue and mystery working remotely side by side, and alone time to recharge became a precious commodity.

Madelyn Esposito-Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think there's a lot of intrigue there. His performance on the field wasn't very good, on tape. I think, Robert Griffin, a rookie of the year, [I'm] surprised he's out there. Tim Tebow takes a team to the playoffs, there's some surprise that he never came back. You know, Johnny Manziel, he's out there.

Michael Reaves/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The mystery, of course, the intrigue and the history. I'm a history nut. I never say anything, but I got a Ph.D. in maritime history, but it's the challenge, I think. Because if you are successful, it's a great feeling of achievement. In my case, if it's lost, I'll look for it.

Clive Cussler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's our job to create space for those voices to be heard, and that's what guides me in this work every day -- not palace intrigue.

Ayanna Pressley

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I've been covering business for more than a decade, from the housing collapse to the fall of Bear Stearns, to the Bernie Madoff scandal, but none of these comes even close to the mystery and intrigue of Elizabeth Holmes.

Rebecca Jarvis

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's very interesting to me that we have just discovered a super-Earth right up against that boundary, the fact that the planet is rocky and in its star's habitable zone also raises its intrigue, because we may now have a planet suitable for the search for life as well.

Jason Dittmann

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Many traders were expecting the Philippines to make the large 500,000 tonnes purchase shortly after approval was received, but no deals have happened, and this is really adding some intrigue to the market.

James Fell

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I don't see elections anytime soon, but I do see some intrigue at the Fatah conference in November, erekat's tapping as the next PLO secretary-general might be a hint that he'll be appointed vice-president.

Grant Rumley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Muhammadiyah is now in the middle of a struggle between a capitalist economic system and a socialist economic system, the world will not reach peace and prosperity through political intrigue, but rather through economic balance.

Syafrudin Anhar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think there's obviously some modest intrigue because, you know, most members offices are cream walls.

Aaron Schock

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.

Azel Backus

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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